Hey group,
I have a wrapper for freetype ready for public consumption. It's pretty
dirt simple in terms of features and will be used for text rendering in
Chaco. This release works pretty well in my tests. Notes and downloads
are available here:
http://www.scipy.org/site_content/freetype
Also, you can get it from the CVS by checking out either 'chaco' or
'freetype'. The freetype extension is created with weave, but you don't
have to have weave to build it -- I've bundled all the files in the
source distribution.